From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 7 13:37:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A99416A4D0 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:37:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C381C43F75 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:37:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3F1172DB5; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:37:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C0E72DAD; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:37:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:37:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: michael In-Reply-To: <20031206101611.GA21554@brenner.msresearch.org> Message-ID: <20031207133651.I7085@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20031206101611.GA21554@brenner.msresearch.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslogwithdate-extension-logfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 21:37:52 -0000 On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, michael wrote: > Hi, > > i widely use FreeBSD and his enhancement's vs. other OS'es. > > Now i have the wish that the 'newsyslog' uses date-extensions > in the 'rotated' logfiles. Note that this scheme has the potentially nasty side effect that if newsyslog did pruning by date, and somehow the system date got munged, it could erase all your old logfiles. In the current scheme that can't happen. And don't forget about ls -l for finding dates of things :-) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org